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We have to produce more to feed a growing population - but what if it is the other way round?
Green Alliance is an independent think tank and charity focused on ambitious leadership for the environment
Les travaux et rapports scientifiques sont aujourd’hui nombreux à poser la question de l’alimentation de demain et à s’alarmer sur notre capacité à nourrir 11 milliards de personnes à l’horizon 2050 (Esnouf et al., 2011 ; Masson-Delmotte, 2020) tout en respectant la santé humaine et des écosystèmes. L’alimentation est responsable en France du quart de l’empreinte carbone. Elle est à la croisée de plusieurs enjeux, de santé et d’environnement, comme la préservation de la biodiversité, l
The European Commission presented its annual working plan to help agri-food producers promote their products in the EU and abroad, with a focus on sustainability, quality, animal welfare, and healthy eating habits.
Le 2 juin 2022, la stratégie Good Food 2 (2022-2030)
s'ouvre dans une nouvelle fenêtre a été approuvée par le gouvernement bruxellois.
La stratégie Good Food 2 ambitionne que tou·te·s les Bruxellois·es aient accès à des aliments Good Food adaptés à leurs besoins, dans le respect d'un prix juste pour les producteurs·rices. Afin d'atteindre ces objectifs, la Région bruxelloise a impliqué les acteurs·rices du secteur social et de la santé et a adopté une approche de l'alimentation « par quartier », au plus proche des citoyen·ne·s.
Those who are working for more resilient food systems build on the work of farmers markets – a still popular venue to connect climate-smart food products with urbanites. Photo: Peter Morgan/Flickr Let's not forget what we learned during 2020 about the fragility of our food supply chains: the prevailing, globalized model is as fragile as a…
The recently published report Towards Circular Food Systems in Bonn shows that transitioning to a circular food system offers Bonn a way to achieve substantial waste prevention and to fulfill it’s long-term strategies of becoming a zero-waste city while also contributing to its aim to become climate-neutral by 2035
As part of its waste prevention ambition, the city of Bonn is focusing on food waste mitigation and packaging reduction initiatives, as well as campaigns to encourage sustainable consumption that contribute to zero waste. The circular economy offers practical tools to achieve this goal.
The Romanian city of Oradea will redesign green spaces with local, wild and perennial plants, that can provide decoration all year round. The new spaces should also be nearly self-sufficient and self-..
During the pandemic, the small size and local ties of these food providers allowed for a quick response to the evolving demand for food. Farmers markets, salad suppliers and community growers were able to make healthy, locally grown foods more accessible while strengthening community ties through collaboration and volunteer opportunities.
We launched an action to gather feedback and ideas from the citizens of Differdange. We sent them a postcard, which was featured in the monthly magazine of the city. Next to the postcard, the magazine also included an article dedicated to FUSILLI, which was a great opportunity to explain the project to the citizens of Differdange.
With the postcard, we want the citizens to send us their ideas. The citizens could return their answers online or bring the postcard to the cultural centre.
The City of Rome developed a participatory urban gardening project. The aim of the project is two-fold: it fights social exclusion and poverty and allows brownfield recovery.
Working with NGOs, citizens, disadvantaged people and minorities, the city uses the urban and suburban agriculture as a means to improve governance processes. Alongside employment policy, social and intercultural dialogue has a pre-eminent role to play. The importance of other factors such as housing, health, culture and communication should also be acknowledged.
Based on a literature review on low-income people (defined here as the poorest 40% in terms of standard of living) food diets, this Issue Brief presents key elements on the practices and the relationship that this category of population has with sustainable food. The objective is to better qualify their food behaviors and aspirations, particularly with respect to the rest of the population, in order to characterize the participation of this social group in the transition to sustainable food. Finally, it is a question of identifying the conditions for a true co-construction of sustainable food paradigms, in a food justice perspective.
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Cucumbers, lettuce, and radishes freshly picked from the rooftop, parking lot or partially closed down graveyard: with urban agriculture, vegetables thrive wherever there is space in the city. Green spaces have a positive impact on the environment, health and biodiversity. In addition, they also offer space and opportunities for local vegetable supply. A recent study now shows that there is enough space available in Berlin to cover up to 82 per cent of the city's vegetable consumption locally.
Who doesn’t recognize this: you buy just too many groceries, leaving leftovers that eventually disappear in the trash. It may sound like a small issue, but all households combined provide a significant surplus of unused food. Add to that the waste of companies, where loads of canteen lunches remain untouched, or the hospitality industry that
Warsaw has implemented a project aimed at limiting food waste, with 76 schools joining the School Does Not Waste project
With plans for a national nutrition strategy in the EU Farm to Form vein, German agriculture minister Cem Özdemir wants to make diets healthier and more plant-based, but some say the proposal is dictating what people can and cannot eat.
Food System Resilience: A Planning Guide for Local Governments is a resource guide aimed at helping local governments build food system resilience in a way that promotes equitable and just food systems.
Military blockades, volatile weather patterns, and financial speculation are all contributing to an unprecedented food crisis. In a clear demonstration of our current state of polycrisis, a food system designed for a predictable world finds itself chaotically disrupted. The poor are the worst affected. To guarantee access to food while protecting the climate, Europe must waste no time in building a resilient food system based on agroecology.
As climate talks conclude in Sharm El Sheikh, for the first time ever a deal has been reached that will see agriculture integrated into the UN’s climate action body. The result of lengthy talks and a significant process of negotiation, does the so-called Koronivia package represent a win for sustainable food systems?
Globally, food systems face multifaceted sustainability challenges and the need for food system transformation is increasingly acknowledged. However, …
A WWF report reveals that - at a time of global food insecurity - half of the UK's wheat harvest each year (equivalent to 11bn loaves of bread) is being used to feed livestock in an "inherently inefficient" process that is fuelling climate change and driving nature's decline in the UK and overseas.
The City of Turin has established an interdepartmental and intersectoral coordination on food policies that include and represent all offices dealing with it and encourage a shift from sectoral actions to more strategic approaches.
The goal is to improve the governance process in which all components of the city administration participate.
Solidarity City is a media project of Cooperative City Magazine to promote and strengthen social and solidarity economy practices throughout Europe. Taking Vienna as its starting point, the project aims at mapping initiatives that focus on social inclusion, fair employment, participation, sustainable food systems, ethical consumption and responsible tourism, and exploring their achievements and challenges, as well as telling their stories and helping them gain visibility.
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